Friday Foolishness – Jeopardized Edition

Round and round! WHEEEEE! IT’S FRIDAY AGAIN!!! I TOOK IN TWO CONCERTS AND SLEPT TOO LITTLE THIS WEEK!
But you could probably tell that last part. So if there were only two concerts, how did I spend the rest of the time I should have been sleeping? Why, reading blogs of course! Here’s some of what I saw.Scarp went shopping. Live Clay opened the Tooth Fairy’s luggage, and Quirkyhad a baby!!!Wow! Thanks to them and all of you for the great eye candy this week.
(Yes, some of these are from a couple of weeks ago, but still, I still wanted to mention them.)

No, it’s a smile. Just take the damn picture already.

Besides concerts, one of the things that kept me up this week was last weeks poll. We asked what the next technology should be. And boy, were you all forward thinking. Here’s what you said. (As always, my comments beep and whirr in italics.)

Sharp Little Pencil says microchips hotwiring our brains – zombie behavior.(ERROR 404—SNarkY RespONSe nOt fouND)Nokia!!!! (Kanerva, rooting for the home team here)(Then your new home-team is Microsoft (google it), and they don’t give any discounts for being nice….)Zombie Robots?? John Phillips(Silicon! SIIILLLLLIIICCCOOONNNNNN!!!!!)the dumb phone (Stacy)(It’s not the phone. It’s the users.)A truly clever toaster that never burns your toast MyBeautifulThings(Trying to figure out what military technology that will be adapted from.)Dog mute app. Scarp.(iBone?)Amish Space Program – Hotspur(To humbly go where none before thee hath gone. And mind the horse poop.)Female Sex Robots – Hotspur(Does it matter what gende- Oh, sure…sure, female…)Fake Laugh Implants — Linda Vernon(As long as they feel real!)Rosie from the Jetsons! Benzeknees(Whew! Thought you were going to say Rosie from “Roseanne”!)Wall-E (Add-E)(Fun-E!)Something nobody over 30 will be able to figure out without assistance Elyse 54(Bring back the VCR! No one under 30 will understand it…).5 (It cut me off. Obviously a new fangled poll.)(We’re still trying to fix the *bug )
(*writer)Please says clones! I am tired of doing everything. just want sleep. –UndercoverL(What makes you think your clones won’t be as lazy?)PMAO… we will all be driving bumper cars…(I always knew we were a bunch of clowns.)A vibrator which recharges itself. ~Red.(WE HAVE A WINNER!!!)Teleportation! I would be better able to get off this island! Kayjai(Can’t you just be voted off?)Friday Follishness – Phone Edition – all the foolishness all the time. thematticuskingdom(This is the most serious thing I do all week.)a bug free version of windows. thematticuskingdom(Woah – we’re looking for possible futures here, not flat out fantasy!)TV antennas for your retinas. thematticuskingdom(Had to look in an old Farmers Almanac to find out what “tv antennae” were…)insta-polygraphs: letting you identify the liars around you. thematticuskingdom(I think those are called “ears”.)followed swiftly by the insta-polygraph beater. thematticuskingdom(I think those are called “politicians”.)Twigs upgraded to some sort of brush for the teeth (Rutabaga)(Will it scrape off the genetically modified food I eat?)Google glass right in the eyeball. Embrace the Google overlord. (rollergiraffe)(Can I also see everyone in my Goolge Talk- I mean Google+- I mean…maybe Google should just focus on searching…)brickhousechick: an app that does your job at the office AND in bed! 🙂(What I do in bed isn’t a job. It’s an adventure.)
(*snaps on harness and lowers goggles*)angry birds (I’d be angry too if that was the pinnacle of technology.)

Congratulations to Red for this weeks winning answer! And from the offered choices, the most popular was Whatever it is, it will mostly be used for porn.. So it looks like the future will bring confusion. And sex.
Funny how those two often travel together…

I’ll take “Who Has Burt Reynolds Envy” for $2.50, Alex.

Well, you know what comes next. This is the part where I ask an incredibly stupid question. But this time, that’s not going to happen. This time I’m just going to write the answers. You get to write the question!
Pick as many answers as you like. But “Other” answers should be the question that these are in some vague way related to. And if you leave a write-in, leave some ID too so I can link back to you next week. Oh, and do all that by 2359 EDT on 2 October, because that’s when this one ends.

Take Our PollAnd to send you on your way while I catch a much needed nap at my desk…
Yes, it’s a car commercial. But it’s still funny.
And since I seem to be all technology-future this week, let’s finish off here.Thanks for coming around, and I’ll see you…well, some time next week, I guess…
Have a great weekend!

Who did you go and see? I was offered last minute Pixies ticket for free but I was in the middle of dinner. Shows how old I’ve become – the gig was only a 10 minute walk from my house. It was an Itunes sponsored event, they have gigs all month, so assumed it would be full of non-fans anyway so not too miffed. And am seeing them in a month anyway, I fear without Kim it won’t be the same.

All from my youth. Wedding Present, best British band ever. Superchunk, good old indie rock. Bill Callahan also known as Smog on his earlier (and better ) work. We don’t hear from KT Tunstall over here much these days.

You don’t need to tell me that Nokia is now Microsoft. The papers are full of it on a daily basis, along with golden handshakes and salary packages gone wrong. Who knows if the real story will ever come out. (Good news, Microsoft didn’t get all of Nokia… so let’s see) and now to read the rest of the answers 😀

I sincerely hope that Microsoft keeps its Nokia division in your country and thrives. Also, the rest of Nokia is now going to focus on some other technology, so maybe we’ll see some interesting useful things still coming from them.

Thanks Hyper, you too!
KT Tunstall tuesday, Neko Case thursday. Both opening acts (Benjamin Lopez and AC Newman) literally put me to sleep. But the heaadliners were realy good.
Neko Case was in Radio City Music Hall, which is a stunningly beautiful venue, and actually has legroom at the seats!

I am too disturbed by the picture of Alex “Over-Enunciate Answers, Especially If They Are Remotely French in Origin” Trebek to come up with an answer or question for this week. I may have also lost my appetite for the next several days too…

I actually never thought of the etymology of the name Burt.
Whenever it comes up I think of Bert Convy driving a motorcycle (or car) off the back of a plane in Cannonball Run, singing “I’ve got to be free….I’ve got to be meeeeee…”

There is a meta-poll tucked away n a safe undisclosed location.
It has a gimmick I can only absolutely ever use once, which means I’m saving it for the when I have absolutely nothing.
I almost used it this week.
hehehe

Ha! I wish I were that clever!
No, meta as in (from Urban Dictionary) “used to characterize something that is characteristically self-referential.”
It’s an uber self-referential poll that mocks the whole process and can only really be done once.
(It isn’t bad though!)

Oh, I looooooove this. Where has this hilarious feature been all my life?! (As opposed to that Alex “Boogie Nights” Trebek photo, which I could’ve gone my whole life without…) I now return to working on writing the winning question to the answer. That or napping.

I like Neko Case. I’ve only seen her once, back in (I believe) 2001 at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland. She was very charming. She spilled water on her shirt and said to the audience, “Geez, who’s a f***ing pig?” It was really cute.

Loved the Audi ad! Two gigs in a week, can’t be bad!
We are coming over the pond on Monday for a three week road trip around New England. Looking for a gig in Boston at the end of the drive….
Have a good week 🙂

The naked game…you never told me who won. We BOTH won! Ha ha. Great clips and, of course, your comments are stupendous! I will try hard to think of a question. Get some rest this weekend, huh, from your fun-filled week!

“And then the nun said, “Pass the avacado.” LOL!! I’m so glad I saved this for Monday Morning laughter! And those clips! If it weren’t for your weekly clips I’d be so out of it! But as it is, I”m a cool Friday Foolish hep cat! I gotta go — the nuns have arrived for the avacados!

This is a wicked twist on your usual Friday Foolishness postings but I can see it being a wicked idea, in fact it should be just as funny as every other Friday 🙂 I can’t wait to see what everyone added on this one 🙂 lmao

Those nuns have a habit of stuffing things into
awkward places, and it is amazing what you will
find underneath there too, well I only said 😉 lol

Yes Tuesday here too, but I am busy getting the early part of the Halloween script together, if that goes to plan it should be great 🙂 I usually pick characters and add names for all my friends but here I have chosen to not do that, I wouldn’t want to offend anyone 😦 lol

I am looking forward to Friday and well done on yet another fine example of your creativity 🙂 Awesome…